Karsums played 14:55 in the match and was charged with a minor for cross checking and a misconduct in the game. Cherepovets was led by a pair of goals from former NHLer Marcel Hossa, who now leads the league with 29.

Shattuck (31-8-3) has won six of their last eight games. They beat Breck High School (Blake Wheeler's HS) 4-1 in their last game on January 21. Gotovets, a Cornell commit, had five points after 14 games, but has 10 points in his last 16. He is third among Shattuck defensemen in scoring. 5'11" Nick Bruneteau, a Nebraska native, leads all Shattuck defensemen with 32 points in 38 games. He was not on Central Scouting's mid-term rankings. His brother, Brett, was a fourth round pick of Washington in 2007 who's currently playing for the University of North Dakota.

Barberio has points in 11 of his last 12 games. Moncton completed the weekend road trip through Quebec 3-0, with all their wins coming in convincing fashion. Barberio hit 40 points for the third straight season, though heâ€™s well on pace to smash his career high of 46 points set in 70 games two years ago.

A huge performance for Zador, and he did it for a team that canâ€™t seem to close the floodgates when it comes to the opposition scoring. The win breaks a personal six-game losing streak for Zador. Itâ€™s his second career shutout, and first since a 37-save performance on October 9 against Erie.

A nice rebound win for Vermont, who lost 3-1 to UMass in their previous game. Marshall earned a secondary assist on defenseman Drew MacKenzieâ€™s (Sabres 7/2007) first goal of the year to open the gameâ€™s scoring.

Dustin Tokarski returned to the Admirals just in time to lay down a 24 save shutout for his club. That's solid.

First Period
NO SCORING

Second Period
NO SCORING

Third Period
NOR Tyrell, (1) (Craig, Hall), 12:44

Dana Tyrell and Tokarski were the game's first and third stars. Congratulations to Tyrell on his first goal of the season and second as a professional. Dana had 1 goal and 6 points in 11 games as an amateur tryout at the end of the 2007-2008 season. The Admirals outshot Lowell 33-24 in the game.

The Admirals now creep to 3 games under .500 for the season as their road trip rolls on. Oddly, the team is 12-11-2 on the road and 8-12-0 at home, even though playing at The Scope traditionally has been a huge advantage for Norfolk. Norfolk has 15 road games left on the schedule and 20 at home, so if they can start to defend home ice better, that may make the difference in They are 2 points behind Wilkes-Barre/Scranton for the final playoff spot in the division with the Penguins holding a game in hand. Norfolk has the Hartford Wolf Pack up next on Wednesday.

There was a little pearl in Erik Erlendsson's blog post about Dustin Tokarski being returned to Norfolk and Riku Helenius being assigned to Sodertalje of the Elitserien. The Lightning are apparently intersted in once again making an attempt to sign Russian star goaltender Vasily Koshechkin, who is currently playing for Magnitogorsk in the KHL. Koshechkin, a mammoth 6'6" netminder who was an 8th round pick in 2002, has 14 shutouts over the past two seasons, and arguably has been the best netminder in Russia over the past four seasons. The Lightning made multiple attempts to sign Koshechkin when Jay Feaster was the team's GM, but Koshechkin always chose to remain in Russia. Will Koshechkin, who turns 27 in March, now try his hand at the best hockey league in the world?

The post also mentions the possibility of Karri Ramo returning from Omsk of the KHL as well. Ramo has one more year remaining on his deal with Avangard, but he has an NHL out clause for a signing window this summer. It is believed Koshechkin will be a free agent this summer after he signed with Magnitogorsk earlier this year when his original deal with his longtime club Togliatti was voided after Lada couldn't meet payroll on multiple occassions.

Harju took a minor for diving after being held up by Oleg Kvasha and was 25% on draws in 16:11 of ice time. Former Lightning draft pick Vadim Epanchintsev had a pair of helpers in the match for Mytischi.

Barberio (pictured) has points in 10 of his last 11 games. This was unofficially his second First Star of the season. All three of his assists came on first period power plays, helping Moncton to a 4-1 lead entering the second period.

This was just the seventh loss of the season for Barrie, who has a 10 point lead on Mississauga for both the division and conference top seed. Hutchings hasnâ€™t registered a point in eight of his last 13 games, but when he scores, he scores in bunches. He has nine goals over that span (one assist).

Regina completed a three game sweep of the Broncos and has earned at least a point in their sixth game in a row. The Pats gained again on the ninth-place Broncos in the race for the eight-spot, but Red Deer, currently holding that position, also won. Regina remains six points back. Ashton broke a three-game pointless streak.

Killorn and Canadiens' first rounder Louis Leblanc combined for two goals, including Leblancâ€™s with three seconds left in regulation to force overtime. Killorn had the only assist on that goal. Leblanc set up Killorn earlier in the game to give the Crimson a 2-1 lead.